A low, coral island---most of the Marshall Islands, an Oceanic country that includes more than two dozen of these, are examples.
What is an atoll?
100
The best estimate of the number of living languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa among the following choices: about 100; more than 1,000; or 200 to 300
What is more than 1,000 languages?
100
This country is the fastest-growing emitter of greenhouse gases in the world
What is China?
100
The approximate population of India among the following choices: 3.1 billion; 100 million; 1.25 billion; 325 million.
What is 1.25 billion?
100
The South Asian country where Mount Everest is located.
What is Nepal?
200
The major land form feature of the eastern United States and Canada.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
200
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
Who is the Dalai Lama?
200
"A term used to describe the current geological epoch in which human activity dominates the planet."
What is the Anthropocene?
200
A crop that was developed 5,000 years ago and grows in standing water.
What is rice?
200
"a form of social and economic organization characterized by the profit motive and individual and corporate ownership of productive goods and resources."
What is Capitalism?
300
The artificial waterway that joins the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The country that originated the concept of "gross national happiness".
What is Bhutan?
300
This is formed by plastic waste carried into ocean gyres.
What is the Pacific Garbage Patch?
300
With over 2.4 million tourist visits in 2013 alone, this Latin American country's main source of foreign exchange is ecotourism.
What is Costa Rica?
300
"a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S."
What is Orientalism?
400
This is a series of islands that are co-located within a large body of water. Examples in Southeast Asia include Indonesia and the Philippines.
What is an archipelago?
400
The building the flag of Cambodia incorporates into its flag.
What is Angkor Wat?
400
The largest global consumer of energy.
What is China?
400
This drainage basin, which includes the world's largest tropical rainforest, makes up about 2/3 of Brazil.
What is the Amazon basin?
400
"A political and economic system in which regions and societies are legally, economically, and politically dominated by an external society."
What is Colonialism?
500
Southeast Asia's longest waterway.
What is the Mekong River?
500
"A process by which a generation of individuals born elsewhere felt less loyalty and fewer cultural ties to their countries of origin and developed a new ethos with ties to the United States."
What is Americanization?
500
A tree planting movement in Nairobi that is also a response to women's economic issues. It was developed by Wangari Maathai and a model for other sustainability movements
What is the Green Belt Movement?
500
The parallel that was agreed upon as the border between North Korea (DPRK) and South Korea (ROK).
What is the 38th parallel?
500
"A system of elements--political-economic, sociocultural, environmental-- linked together so that changes in one element often result in changes in another."